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A Network Science Summer Course for High
School Students
Florian Klimm, Benjamin F. Maier
We organised a summer course on network science
• Length: 60 hours distributed over two weeks• participants: 15 teenagers, aged 16 to 18• scientific organisation: two lecturers per course• administrative organisation: it was part of the
Deutsche Schülerakademie, an established German summer school
Florian Klimm — A Network Science Summer Course for High School Students
Deutsche Schülerakademie
• 100 talented teenagers in 6 courses• nominated by their high school
• central organisation allows us to focus on the course• every summer about 10 of them• funded by donors and German Education Ministry
Florian Klimm — A Network Science Summer Course for High School Students
Course StructureDidactical Elements: • preparation:• Questionnaire• Reader
• student presentations• lectures• smaller teaching modules• problem sheets• programming tasks• Rotation• Dokumentation
Florian Klimm — A Network Science Summer Course for High School Students
Topics: • graph theory foundations• graph colouring• social networks• contagion dynamics• dynamic systems• fractals
Analog Creation of Random Graphs with Dice
Student Presentations
Florian Klimm — A Network Science Summer Course for High School Students
• 10 min length• phenomenological
introduction• topic based on
survey results• overall students gave
good presentations• a lot of them overrun
the allocated time
Creating a Floor Plan Network
• students got print out of floor plan of the school building• they organised the network creation independently by
themselves
Florian Klimm — A Network Science Summer Course for High School Students
Klosterschule Roßleben Network consisting of 161 rooms
used later for contagion dynamics
Some things we learned• student’s background knowledge is very diverse,
especially for programming➡ splitting the course into beginner and advanced
• they don't know some concepts they should know➡ flexibility needed
• students need a lot of help with writing• potentially we should have pushed them more• our course was the most popular during the
rotation➡ students like math!
Florian Klimm — A Network Science Summer Course for High School Students
Final Comments• if you have (German-speaking) PhD Students,
encourage them to apply for a Schülerakademie course!
• you can find some of our material online (original German and translated English)• https://github.com/floklimm/network-summer-school
• there is also a manuscript on the way• you can find it on my webpage• please talk to me if you can endorse for the arxiv
Physics Education subject (physics.ed-ph)
Florian Klimm — A Network Science Summer Course for High School Students
Acknowledgements
Florian Klimm — Temporal Reconfiguration of Protein Interaction Networks
Funding
My supervisors Mason Porter Charlotte Deane Jonny Wray
Benjamin’s supervisor Dirk Brockmann
A Network Science Summer Course for High
School Students
Florian Klimm, Benjamin F. Maier
